(FOX NEWS) – Maureen (Flavin) Sweeney, a lighthouse worker
in Ireland whose critical weather reports helped ensure the
success of the epic D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War
II, died on Sunday at 100 years old, according to multiple
reports on Monday in Irish media.

Her death was received with reverence on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Michigan (below) told Fox News Digital. 
"Maureen Sweeney is a hero and saved countless lives of
Allies."

A young Maureen and the Blacksod Bay Lighthouse.

On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight
D. Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for the largest amphibious
military operation in history: Operation Overlord, the Allied
invasion of northern France, commonly known as D-Day.

By daybreak, 18,000 British and American parachutists were
already on the ground. An additional 13,000 aircraft were
mobilized to provide air cover and support for the invasion. 

At 6:30 a.m., American troops came ashore at Utah and Omaha
beaches. 

Gen. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
(October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969)

A plane flies over the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-
Mer, Normandy.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On May 19, 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left)
and U.S.  U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt (right) set a date for
the cross-Channel landing that would become D-Day, May 1, 1944 
but, that date would prove a bit premature, as bad weather became
a factor.

Addressing a joint session of Congress, Churchill warned that the
real danger at present was the “dragging-out of the war at enormous expense” because of the risk that the Allies would become “tired or bored or split”—and play into the hands of Germany and Japan. He pushed for an early and massive attack on the “underbelly of the
Axis.” 

CAMILLE
BOHANNON